Another full day Patton Museum, Fort Knox (no they didn't let us in), Louisville Slugger Factory, and attempted to visit president Lincoln's birthsite. The AAA book said that it was open till dusk but the closed gate stated otherwise so that we will return tomorrow to see where lincoln was born.

The Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor was established in 1949 to preserve historical artifacts and archival materials relating to Mechanized Cavalry and Armor and General George S. Patton Jr. It is one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of armored vehicles spanning 1917 to the present and has the finest collection of Patton artifacts in the world including his trademark ivory gripped Colt pistol and the Cadillac staff car in which he was fatally injured. The Museum is administered by the U.S. Army Armor Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

A Little History

The U.S. Bullion Depository at Ft. Knox.

In 1936 the U.S. Treasury Department began construction of the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky on land transferred from the military.The site is located on what is now Bullion Blvd. at the intersection ofGold Vault Rd. The 'Gold Vault' was completed in December 1936 at acost of $560,000, which in today's market would equal $7.5 million.The first gold shipments were made from January to July 1937. The majority of the United States' gold reserveswere gradually shipped to the site, including old bullion and morenewly made bars made from melted gold coins. Some intact coins werestored, as well. The transfer needed 500 rail cars and was sent by registered mail, protected by the Postal Inspection Service.During World War II the depository also held the reserves of a number of European countries as well as one of four known copies (exemplifications) of the Magna Carta (which had been sent for display at the 1939 New York World Fairand when war broke out, was kept in America for the duration), andother key documents from Western history. It also held the original Declaration of Independence and Constitution during the war. In addition, the repository also held the Crown of St Stephen, part of the Hungarian crown jewels given to American soldiers to prevent it from falling into Soviet hands.